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However, they are staggering the registration this year. Long story short, they are not giving people free sign-ups for the BYOC, you either pay for one or win one. General admission is still free. A bit of a bummer as (last I remember) BYOC has always been free. Be sure to keep an eye on the QuakeCon site, Twitter & Facebook. Click “Read More” to see the full press release and the details.

It's pretty darn cool! Bluemeanies over at Tastyspleen posted about this: Quake 3 Arena, in a browser, ported to Javascript. You can head to the Quakejs site and give it a play. It gives you the option of starting a CPMA or Vanilla Q3 server and you can choose your map, bot count, bot difficulty and game more. It apparently supports mods too as they mention they're running CMPA & Quake 3 Fortress servers. Check it out!

We all know we need more GOOD non-CoD style shooters (I do like that kind of shooter along with Quake style), but when someone else says it, it's just more gratifying. Check out ZoomIn Games Top 5 reasons why we need more Arena style shooters!

Alien Arena is showing off a new look for their iconic characters: the aliens. This is “Generation 3”, as they call it. Click here to see a comparison from years ago to now.

A project I recently became aware of named “Doom 1 as 1 level, Doom 2 as 1 level” is showing off some progress. It ports Doom 1 to Doom 2's engine then makes the entire game of Doom 1 as level 1 and the entire game of Doom 2 as level 2. Version 2.0 has been released and it's suggested to use the Zandronum engine as Zdoom doesn't work properly.

Doom One, the Doom mod that makes entire episodes of Doom (the original) in to single maps (with tweaks & flow changes between “maps” is showing off some new work. Click “Read More” to view.

GtkRadiant 1.6.4 official stable build has been released! They wish to thank Jay Dolan (Quake2World developer) for his effort in bring Quake2World, Quake 2 and MacOS X support to this release. Other big changes are support for RTCW, Star Trek: Elite Force, Jedi Academy and the project has been updated to MS Visual Studio 2012.

Click “Read More” to see the full changelog and click here to download!